A street-cleaner and a police officer were injured in a stabbing attack by a man armed with a screwdriver who was shot dead by a second officer in France on Wednesday morning.

A monthly ‘big clean’ of the streets of Aubervilliers, a diverse north-Paris suburb in Seine-Saint-Denis, bore witness to an attack on a city employee and a police officer by a man who is said to have attacked them “for no reason” with a screwdriver. The street cleaner was stabbed “several” times with the screwdriver as police officers rushed to intervene.